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Feb. 18, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I don't know, man.
If I'm Obama, I might be starting to have a little problem with Marie Harf.
Not over what she's saying.
I mean, that's right, that's right where he wanted to be.
But she's becoming a bigger media personality than Obama is.
And that kind of stuff doesn't sit well with people like the one.
Anyway, she's doubled down on it.
You know, yesterday she said that the problem with ISIS, we're never gonna beat him by killing them.
We can't outkill them.
We can't kill them in war.
We're never gonna.
We need to get them jobs.
So everybody had the appropriate reaction to that.
You're a dunce, Marie.
You're an absolute embarrassing dunce.
And so she went back on TV and doubled down on it by saying, no, no, no, no, you people, I mean, this is not her exact words.
She said, you people, you do not have the ability to understand the nuance that I was using.
So it's a typical liberal response.
A liberal says something asinine, literally stupid, and then claims we're the ones too dumb to understand how brilliant what she said was.
So we've got the examples that are coming up.
Greetings, folks.
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And I've had so many people complain, well, Rush, I don't know what you're gonna tell.
There's nothing new out there.
There's all kinds of stuff out there today.
And we're looking forward to heading down the path and getting started.
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Joe Biden.
You know, I I'll tell you, I this it's just Joe.
It's just it uh to watch this guy and to watch the reaction that people have to Joe Biden is its own reward.
And I was thinking the best Joe Biden pickup lines, can you imagine what they are?
But you see him, and he's nuzzling that woman, the wife of whoever it was, he's nice Ashton Carter, not to be confused with Ashton Kutcher, not to be confused with Demi Moore.
But but Joe was getting as close as he couldn't.
You'd see him nuzzling that woman, you wonder what in the world is he saying.
How about I put the STD in stud.
All I need is you.
How about you know what?
You are much more attractive in person through my telescope.
And how about you know, I want to be reincarnated as your son so I can breastfeed from you.
Well, that's actually that's I can't take credit for that.
That's a takeoff on the old Dolly Parton joke.
I had a nightmare last night, and it was that I was your son and you didn't breastfeed me.
That's an old joke.
I mean, that goes that goes way, way, way back.
Um maybe Biden could have been whistling, whispering into her ear and saying, hey, does this my handkerchief smell like chloroform to you?
I wonder what you know the guy's got his lines.
You know he's saying something, and you know that if we knew what it was, we'd be laughing ourselves.
Silly, you know it's stand up, Chuck, let him see you, Chuck.
Come on, man.
Oh, Chuck's in a wheelchair.
He can't stand up.
Oh, God bless it.
Well, let's all stand up.
The guy is just a walking joke, and the idea that that he's ever gonna become president is uh it's it's preposterous.
Now let's see, what else?
Oh, yeah.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh the uh uh job summit.
I'm thinking the White House needs a job to follow through on Marie Harf.
Yeah, for ISIS.
For the ISIS Job Summit.
I mean, what a great foreign policy uh uh uh breakthrough that could be.
Here you have your number two spokes babe at the State Department out there saying there's no way we can beat them.
We can't kill them all.
We can't kill enough of them to win.
They're just gonna be popping up all over the place.
What we need to do is find them gigs.
We need to find them jobs.
Never mind the fact that they're 92 and a half million Americans that can't find work.
Never mind this regime hasn't the slightest idea how to find or build domestic employment.
Here comes Marie Harf.
And I was thinking maybe there are a lot of people they could help.
First thing to do is a White House jobs summit.
Why are they calling they're doing this this three-day shindig and they're calling it a countering violent extremism summit?
Why not just turn it into another job summit?
I mean, Marie Harf and Obama think getting ISIS people jobs is the best way to counter extremism.
And maybe, maybe in addition to doing that, you could bring in the Chamber of Commerce.
Maybe bring in the Chamber of Commerce as a weapon of mass destruction against ISIS.
I mean, the Chamber of Commerce, vast networking and fundraising ability to recruit all sorts of franchisable businesses.
You could have the Chamber working with the State Department to teach ISIS how to set up Starbucks, McDonald's, Subway, Chick-fil-A, Uber, Domino's Auto Zone, even Walmart could be all funded, and look what we could do.
We could establish American, well, I capital beachheads, economic beachheads right in the middle of ISIS encampments, using Obama's White House Jobs Summit and the Chamber of Commerce to help get it done, all based on Marie Harf's contention that all we need to do to defeat ISIS is get them jobs.
And then after they get the jobs, after they have their own Starbucks and their own McDonald's and Subway and Chick-fil-A, we'd have to overcome the dietary incompatibilities.
But Obama in the Chamber can help with this.
Bring maybe maybe bring some Republican political consultants in who are experts at working with the Chamber and iron out some of these differences.
And with all the jobs that would be created with the Chamber and with the White House ISIS jobs summit, I am sure I am confident that the zeal, the religious zeal ISIS has to kill Christians and Jews will be quenched.
With all those jobs, that's what Marie Harf is saying.
They won't have any desire anymore to go kill people because they will have jobs.
They will have their own robust economy.
And Obama then claimed he did more to spread America into the Middle East, American values than Bush did.
Can you see ISIS run McDonald's?
I know I'm going to get emails.
Rush, how can you joke about this?
I'm just following the lead.
This is none of this is my idea.
I'm just a natural logical progression.
If you're going to have the number two in the State Department, literally double down on this claim.
She says on television Monday night, we can't kill them.
We can't beat them.
That's old-fashioned thinking.
There's no war in traditional sense is going to beat ISIS.
We need to get them jobs.
Okay.
Well, I'm here to help.
How are we going to do that?
Then people say, you know, Marie, that's really asinine.
That is really, really ignorant.
It's embarrassing that anybody in an administration have that idea.
She then doubles down on it.
Well, you didn't get my nuance.
You didn't understand exactly how detailed and brilliant my proposal.
Okay, well, I'm just trying to understand it here.
So let's follow it up.
We're going to get ISIS jobs, how are we going to do it?
What kind of jobs?
What kind of jobs are there in the Middle East?
There aren't any.
We're going to need the help of the chamber.
Don't get on me on my case, folks.
What I do here is illustrate absurdity by being absurd, and this is absurd.
And I know some of you might think this is insensitive, but don't blame me for it because this is just the natural progression of thinking.
If you want to accept what Marie Harf and this regime believe, and by the way, it's not just the regime.
Richard Stengel, guy that used to run Time magazine.
He's joined Marie Harf in this.
The only reason that ISIS has membership is because they can't find jobs.
Okay, fine.
We need to find them jobs.
How do we do that?
They have to be entry level.
Look at we could even implement the minimum wage argument.
What better way to corrupt ISIS than to export American liberalism into it?
That was once my idea with the ChICOMs.
You know, can you imagine the Chikobs having to deal with militant feminism?
Can you imagine the ChICOMs having to deal with militant environmentalist whackers?
So let's export liberalism to these places and corrupt them just like they've been corrupted here.
This is just a natural extension.
You can tell me I'm being insensitive and so forth, but I'm just doing comedy, folks, as news.
I mean, don't complain to me.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge societal evolution.
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If it happens on Comedy Central, it's a laugh riot.
If it happens here, it's insensitive.
Jobs summit for ISIS.
Makes perfect sense to me.
ISIS seems to be well prepared with all kinds of shovel ready jobs, wouldn't you think?
The Barack Obama administration started out 2008.
We needed to have a stimulus to the economy, nearly a trillion dollars.
Why?
Well, because shovel ready jobs.
We had all kinds of things that we had to rebuild out there.
Marie Harf, State Department, Monday, need to get ISIS jobs.
Can't kill them.
They keep popping up.
We cannot win this war in a traditional sense by killing the enemy.
We're going to get to the root cause, and that means poverty and unemployment.
We need to find them jobs.
I try and help.
Chamber of Commerce can come in, teach them about franchising, open up, my they could be become Republican donors if you do this right.
Make them part of the Republican donor class get the Chamber of Commerce involved.
And of course, you could argue that that uh killing off ISIS.
Um I mean, it you could one of two ways.
Killing off ISIS would be a great work project in itself.
Shovel ready jobs, or ISIS obviously has a lot of shovel ready jobs.
I realize this may be insensitive to some of you, but remember, this is just fake news.
Or no, this is news, uh real news, delivered with comedy.
Except when conservatives do it, it's not permitted.
It's considered insensitive.
When liberals do it, it wins awards and kudos.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is Marie Harf.
Last night, the situation room with Wolf Blitzer, who said some of the best known terrorists out there came from wealth and privilege, Harf.
Osama bin Laden, a lot of these Eyman al Zawar here, he's a doctor from Egypt.
These people have a lot of money, Marie.
They have higher education.
They have degrees.
Mohammed Adda, the lead hijacker, 9-11, had all kinds of money, had all kinds of college degrees, bin Laden himself.
What do you say about that?
We cannot kill every terrorist around the world, nor should we try.
How do you get at the root causes of this?
It look, it might be too nuanced an argument for some.
Uh, like I've seen over the past 24 hours some of the commentary out there, but it's really the smart way that Democrats, Republicans, military commanders, our partners in the Arab world think we need to combat this.
So she doubles down on it and blames us for not having the smarts to understand her brilliance.
You can't kill every terrorist around the world, nor should we try.
So we should use no deterrence whatsoever.
We should make no effort, it doesn't matter, it's a losing effort.
It's a losing cause.
And we can't appreciate the nuance in this.
But it's the smart foreign policy now that's identified as the Obama foreign policy.
And it's a smart way.
Democrats, Republicans, military commanders, our partners in the Arab world.
I think we need to combat this by finding ISIS jobs.
An unemployment program or a jobs program for ISIS.
I can't say this with a straight face.
I'm having I'm a real trouble keeping a straight face here.
And well, uh how do you pay them for that?
I thought about midnight basketball.
I thought about everything the Clinton administration's done.
We've tried everything to the theory is that they got too much time on their hands.
They just they they're not productive.
They they need work.
They need they need productivity.
They need a sense of purpose in their lives.
They need meaningfulness in their lives.
They need jobs.
The Clinton administration, midnight basketball, we tried any number of ways to uh to put people in certain types of activities, even jobs in some cases, to occupy their minds so that they don't get all that testosterone and other hormones flowing through the body, demanding to be utilized in vicious and violent ways.
And none of it's ever worked.
That doesn't matter.
As we discussed yesterday, every new generation of socialists looks at the forever in human history failure of socialism and communism and says, well, it's only because the right people haven't tried it yet.
And the right people happen to be the current generation.
Obama typified it in his campaign slogan 08.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
So midnight basketball, noon basketball.
Basketball, you know, around prayer time.
I mean, you could do any number of ways, but it has been shown not to work.
Blitzer, after that answer said, I want to give you a chance to respond.
Some of the critics who've been out there, you said it's important to find these guys jobs so they don't become terrorists.
Could you explain, since we don't understand the nuance, what do you mean by that?
Where there are uh lacking in these kinds of opportunities, uh, we need to talk about how to make that different, how to help our partners around the world give young men in that vulnerable age group a different path in life, show them that there's a different chance for them than joining a terrorist organization.
Again, it's one part of the liberalism.
But this is a really uh comprehensive way of looking at how you combat extremism, and it's not one uh that fits into a soundbite sometimes, as I I've seen over the last 24 hours, but it's a really important piece of this.
This is incredible.
This is the number two spokeswoman at the State Department.
Do you hear the feminist studies BS in this answer?
We need to talk about how to help our partners around the world give young men in that vulnerable age group a different path in life, show them there's a different chance for them than joining a terrorist organization.
See, men are natural predators, they're natural brutes.
Yes, they're naturally aggressive.
We need to work with our partners in the Arab world and show these young men that there's a different chance for them.
She doesn't have the slightest idea why they are becoming terrorists, be it Al-Qaeda or ISIS, because she refuses to even learn about Islam.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, loneliness, Literal abject idiocy.
You know, I wonder if Joe Biden is talking to Mrs. Carter's, hey, won't be my butt buddy.
Well, he said he had a friend that was a butt buddy.
Don't get mad at me.
I'm just taking what's in the news and making comedy out of it.
Did I hear what he said?
Yeah, we've got what he said about the Somalis.
And there aren't any where he's talking about the Somali.
There aren't any Somali cab drivers in Delaware.
He got them confused with all of the Indians that work at 7-Eleven.
Somalis, Indians, what's the difference?
They're all good people and potential Democrat voters.
Hit start on the phones.
Jacksonville, Mike, glad to have you with us, sir.
You're up first today.
Make it count.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
Uh just an observation with what Marie Harp said.
Uh basically, you can't kill them all.
The liberals use the same logic in everything.
Uh illegal aliens can't round them all up.
Whether it's drugs, well, you can't arrest everybody, so let's just make everything legal.
Let's just it makes no sense to me the logic.
If you can't do it all, why do any of them?
No, no.
Well, now I understand.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In in the strict sense of the word, it makes no sense.
Alfred you understand liberalism makes perfect sense.
You've just nailed it.
You can't it's we you know the irony here is that liberals are liberals because they believe humanity can be perfected.
They believe what they they believe in government as the central coordinating governing body because that's how people and things be perfected.
That's how you get to utopia.
Yet you're exactly right.
When it comes to dealing with things that get broken because of liberalism, then all of a sudden the idea of perfecting things goes by the wayside.
And in the case of illegal immigrants, well, we can't round them all up.
You're exactly right.
We can't deport all of them.
We can't put everybody in jail.
We can't do that.
We can't kill everybody in ISIS.
And when when you hear this, it makes perfect sense if you know how a liberal thinks.
And what when you hear anybody, Marie Harf or anybody make this claim, your hearing acknowledged failure on the part of liberal policy.
They're not now they don't look at it that way.
That's how you have to interpret what they mean.
Because on the one hand, do not doubt me on this.
One of the most animating aspects of liberalism is utopia, the belief that everything can be ideal and that people can be perfected.
That's why they don't like capitalism.
Capitalism has built-in differences based on a whole bunch of things that really center on the individual.
How much effort, how much desire, uh any number, you know, self-reliance, how many characteristics and traits that are unique to human beings, and that they just can't abide.
So they think everything can be perfected, and everything being perfected means everything being equal and there not being any suffering and no strife and all that.
But of course, that's impossible.
So when the reality of their their utopia can't impossible to utopia hits them, that's when they're, well, well, you know, we can't round them all up.
Oh, we can't, we can't uh we can't kill them all.
We can't it's it's it's dangerous.
I mean, these people are devoid.
Nuance.
This woman wouldn't know reality if it slapped her upside the head.
I doubt that.
She has any practical real-world experience in any of these things.
Everything that she thinks, and she's not alone, she's just the latest example of it.
Everything she thinks derives from philosophical liberalism that is not rooted in any way in the understanding of reality of either the human condition, human life, or just the natural existence of things.
The natural existence of things is what offends them.
The disparities, the inequities, the inequalities, the differences.
They believe it can all be perfected, but only by them running everything.
They're the smartest.
They have all the nuance, we have none.
They've been at it for seven years.
You wonder why they're down in the dumps and enraged all the time.
Look at it, seven years.
They've had seven years to create utopia.
We're further from utopia than we've ever been.
They have to know it.
So they have to come up and blame other things.
Certainly they are never responsible for any of these things.
But that's actually a uh an astute and a shrewd observation, Mike.
Here's uh is it Lisa?
Listen, listen, St. Louis, great to have you on the EIB network, Lisa High.
Hi there.
You know what it sounds to me like Marie Harf is trying to do is export the American dream over there for those young ISIS boys.
I mean, after all, they're pretty much killing it over here, but it sounds like, you know, she wants them to have an opportunity and a chance to better themselves, to find a better way, take a better path, rise up, you know, maybe they can settle down and have a family and afford to send their kids to community college and join the country club.
So, that's where she's coming from.
But it absolutely you know, I know you've been doing a great job, and it is funny, this this thing you're doing, you know, you're just trying to make comedy out of it.
But I'm not kidding you, when you hear it from her mouth, it does truly sound like like a comedy sketch.
It sounds like a valley girl.
Yeah.
A, she sounds like a valley girl.
But you know, you have this is another interesting point.
Here is a woman who, by virtue of being a liberal democrat, is offended by capitalism.
And yet here she is saying we need to export it.
We need to export American jobs.
We need to export the things that build economies.
She's not saying let's export the American government.
She's saying let's find them jobs.
The thing is they don't even know how to do that.
They can't right.
I mean, at least with the Marshall Plan after World War II, you know, that made sense.
They needed to recreate and reestablish their their industries, you know, their livelihoods.
What would there be over there to build up?
What what tell me the companies that were founded, you know.
I'll go one better than that.
If you go back and you listen to the reasons for the for the Iraq war, as announced by George W. Bush leading up to its start in 2003.
Bush said we need to establish a democratic outpost in the Middle East to shine as a beacon to all other people, to show them what freedom is really about, to show them what elections really mean, to show them what they're missing.
We need they called it the democracy project in a in a derivative.
Some people have disagreed with it profoundly.
Even on the right, there were some who thought it was a that was just a horrible reason for going to Iraq.
But Bush was guided by his religious beliefs in this.
I firmly believe that George W. Bush thought that if we established a democratic, a functioning democratic Iraq, that it would act as a magnet to other oppressed people in the region and get them wanting the same thing for them in their countries.
Now the left tried to destroy that.
They tried to destroy Bush.
They said it was stupid.
It was it was unrealistic, it could never happen.
You'll never I'd never forget it.
Here they are now off essentially with Marie Harf anyway, is articulating something similar.
What is exporting jobs if it's not exporting like our previous caller said capitalism or the American dream or the American way of improving your life?
Right, like the shining city on a hill.
Yeah.
That it you're right.
That's exactly exactly what they're saying.
But your point, what's there to build on?
The Marshall Plan, don't forget there's another key ingredient, the Marshall Plan, and that is that we, in an effort to stop Hitler.
It was it was our bombs along with others that destroyed a lot of property.
So we had a moral obligation to rebuild it, but it was part and parcel of what the U.S. stands for.
Some people called it a giant welfare program.
And you can argue about the Marshall Plan even now, pros and cons.
That's not what she's suggesting here.
She she's she doesn't really know what she's talking about, and she's undermining when you get right down to it, I think as you're pointing out, she's undermining what this administration Democrat Party actually stand for.
They're trying, as you said, they're trying to kill the American dream here because it's unfair.
The American dream is not equitable.
And yet the American dream somehow is the solution to the war on terror.
It's convoluted.
So a hundred percent.
I think it's it's dangerous.
It's dangerous.
But try to find the comedy of it, because I'm, you know, I haven't won an award.
What in nine months.
I'm due.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's another of my 35 undeniable truths of life playing out on the world stage, even as we speak, and that is ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
ISIS, Al Qaeda, Islamic terrorism.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
And as a as a as a sub-truth, I added, wars are not won with doctors, nurses, clean water, and now I need to add jobs programs.
That's what you do after they surrender.
After you have cleaned their clocks, and after you've beat them back to wherever, then you offer to rebuild if they sign surrender documents and agree to certain things.
That's how it's done.
But you don't do it the way she's talking about.
You know, I'm struck here.
Marie Harf seems to have more compassion and more understanding for the men of ISIS than this administration has for the men of the Republican Party, who are what?
Engaged in a vicious war on women, and Mrs. Clinton is preparing to revive that meme even as we speak.
Marie Harf seems to have more compassion and more interest in helping the men of ISIS than she or this administration have for the men on college campus in this country who are what?
In the middle of a rape culture.
American women are warned to be afraid to go outside.
American women are warned that men everywhere, college campus, the bar you name it, just waiting to exact violence against women.
But when it comes to ISIS, no, no, no, we can't wipe them.
No, no, no, no, no.
Well, we won't leave them, call them what they are.
We won't even call them men, we won't even call them Islamic terrorists.
They're just a bunch of random folks out there beheading and burning people.
And if we could just, well, find them jobs.
The degree of compassion and understanding for these terrorists compared to the enemy status this administration and its media and the Democrat Party assign to American men, particularly Republican and conservative men, is striking, if you ask me.
Marie Harf, this is this is a Cybercast News Service.
Marie Harf counts Christian militant group among the different extremist threats we face.
You know, it's a legitimate question to ask.
Why do Obama regime officials refuse to call Islamic terrorism Islamic when they seem to have no problem naming Christianity or the Bible as the guiding force between behind other acts of violence?
Obama will talk to you all day long about the Crusades and Christianity and the death and the mayhem that has been done in the name of Christianity in the midst of ISIS.
We won't even barely say ISIS, say ISIL.
We won't say terrorism, and we certainly will not say Islam.
Marie Harf did not seem to have a problem this morning in her erroneous assessment, yet again, of Joseph Coney being motivated by Christianity, uh Christianity in Uganda.
Yeah, whenever they find atrocities around the world and they think they can tie Christianity to it, what do they do?
They yell, Christianity did it!
Christian leader here, Christian over there.
Christian.
But with ISIS and Islamic terror.
No, no, no, no.
That's that's a bunch of folks.
Random uh street crime, uh, random, uh, we need to get them jobs and so forth.
Joe Biden, no qualms about naming right wing terrorists acting in the name of the Bible as a major national peril, as he was speaking to a bunch of Muslims recently.
But here Marie Harf, here's what she said.
She's if you look at the Lord's resistance army and Coney, Joseph Coney, I don't remember people talking about that as much anymore, but that's a Christian militant group, she said.
So there's a lot of different extremist threats we face, and there are different tools that we have to go after, each one of them.
And with ISIS, it's jobs.
What kind of jobs?
Well, I've already come up with my suggestions.
Here's uh here's Ken and Conway, South Carolina.
Uh, glad that you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor.
What these people don't realize or refuse to accept is that finding them jobs will do no good because as far as they are concerned, those the Islamic people who are involved in ISIS, killing infidels is their job.
And as a matter of fact, they actually follow the ultimate nonprofit model.
They go out, they find the funding, and they receive donations to provide their materials as well as pay for their employees to do their job.
Let me guess.
You have read the recent Atlantic article on this.
Uh no, I have not.
Well, you should.
Of all places, I actually can't believe this.
The Atlantic has a story that details the exact identity of ISIS and how they are originalist Islam.
I mean, they are the real deal.
The 700 years ago real deal Islam.
There is no fake about them.
This article dispels everything the regime is saying.
I've got it in the stack.
I'll get to it in the uh in the next hour.
I'm I wouldn't even call what they're doing jobs.
This is this is this is a religious devotion.
It's a religious ideology.
That's what this regime doesn't want to come to grips with.
You know, talking about ISIS in Americanized terms like getting them jobs or their job is to kill infidels.
It's not, it's not, this is not an employment agency.
You know, we're not talking about, gee, do ISIS guys have health care?
That's something we're going to be worried about, by the way.
If we're going to start trying to get them jobs, what about health care?
Because you know, everybody gets a job expects to have health care along with it.
Is Marie Harth thinking about that?
Can you be what are you going to do when ISIS complains there's no health care with the hamburger flipping job that they open up in McDonald's over there in El Baghdadi.
They haven't thought about this.
They haven't thought this all the way through.
Anyway.
Illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
We own that.
We'll be back after this.
You know what?
I'll bet you that ISIS has a lower unemployment rate than the United States.
I'll bet you ISIS has more people, quote unquote, working as a percentage of their population than we do.
And yet she's talking about we need to get them jobs.
Here's a pull quote from the Atlantic article.
What ISIS really wants, the Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths.
It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse.
Here's what that means for its strategy and for how to stop it.
That's in the Atlantic.
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